KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — President Barack Obama on Sunday pressed the Malaysian government to improve its human rights record and appealed to Southeast Asia's teeming youth population to stand up for the rights of minorities and the rule of law.Yet Obama skipped a golden chance to promote that human rights agenda, declining to meet with opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. Instead, he ...

President Barack Obama on Sunday pressed the Malaysian government to improve its human rights record and appealed to Southeast Asia's teeming youth population to stand up for the rights of minorities and the rule of law.

WOW!!

More of Obama telling someone, this time Malaysian, to do as I say, not as I do.

Obama appealing the youth to stand up for the rights of minorities and the rule of law. Notice in Obama's world human rights are the rights of ONLY minorities. And standing up for the rule of law? Obama should practice what he is preaching first. How many laws has Obama abused or broken with just OBAMAcare? Along with the IRS targeting of American citizens, Fast and Furious, and Benghazi. How about lying to the American people 20 some times.

Has Obama come out telling China, The Middle East, or Africa, to improve their human rights record? Wasn't Vice President in earlier China this year, and he didn't mention human rights at all while there. I guess human rights with the Obama administration only goes so far.

From the article: Obama said he had raised his concerns about Malaysia's restrictions on political freedoms during meetings with Prime Minister Najib Razak.

"Those values are at the core of who the U.S. is, but also I think are a pretty good gauge of whether a society is going to be successful in the 21st century or not," Obama said at a news conference with Najib.

The Obama Administration is urging the Supreme Court not to take up New York Times reporter James Risen's plea to consider overturning a ruling that he must testify about his confidential sources for his reporting about a Central Intelligence Agency effort to undermine Iran's nuclear program.

In a filing Friday afternoon, the Justice Department urged the court not to take up the opportunity to declare a reporter's privilege against testifying in criminal cases and argued that even if the justices are inclined to consider such a privilege, Risen's situation is not a good one in which to do so.

Perhaps instead of focusing on human rights in Malaysia, Obama should be focusing on upholding Constitutional rights here in the US?

Ps. By the way, if a Republican administration was trying to jail a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for refusing to reveal his sources this would be front page news at the Denver Post, wouldn't it? This happened last Friday and the Media's silence so far has been deafening.

Obama skipped a golden chance to promote that human rights agenda, declining to meet with opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. Instead, he directed national security adviser Susan Rice to see Anwar on Monday.

However, Obama did not skip the "golden chance" to bring-up racism using a example that is thus far alleged and hasn't been proven a fact. Obama's condemnation of an LA Clipper owner has no place in his in his representation of America, especially since it is based on questionable evidence in an ongoing lawsuit involving deception. That didn't matter to him, according to the White House transcript, Obama said:

"With respect to the statements by the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers — for our Malaysian audience, this is a sports team, basketball team in the United States. The owner is reported to have said some incredibly offensive racist statements that were published. I don’t think I have to interpret those statements for you; they kind of speak for themselves. When people — when ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk. And that’s what happened here . . . And like Malaysia, we constantly have to be on guard against racial attitudes that divide us rather than embracing our diversity as a strength . . . "

Obama is causing more conflict and division in our country as he accusingly uses alleged examples of racism and condescendingly blames folks for being ignorant; he is not pulling people in this country together; his accusing and unfair tactics are separating them.

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From the article: Obama said he had raised his concerns about Malaysia's restrictions on political freedoms during meetings with Prime Minister Najib Razak.

"Those values are at the core of who the U.S. is, but also I think are a pretty good gauge of whether a society is going to be successful in the 21st century or not," Obama said at a news conference with Najib.

The Obama Administration is urging the Supreme Court not to take up New York Times reporter James Risen's plea to consider overturning a ruling that he must testify about his confidential sources for his reporting about a Central Intelligence Agency effort to undermine Iran's nuclear program.

In a filing Friday afternoon, the Justice Department urged the court not to take up the opportunity to declare a reporter's privilege against testifying in criminal cases and argued that even if the justices are inclined to consider such a privilege, Risen's situation is not a good one in which to do so.

Perhaps instead of focusing on human rights in Malaysia, Obama should be focusing on upholding Constitutional rights here in the US?

Ps. By the way, if a Republican administration was trying to jail a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for refusing to reveal his sources this would be front page news at the Denver Post, wouldn't it? This happened last Friday and the Media's silence so far has been deafening.

You are expecting the DP staff to act like journalists and to display ethical behavior.....you're asking a bit much of them, they lack the necessary fortitude. Lapdogs gotta lap.

Obama skipped a golden chance to promote that human rights agenda, declining to meet with opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. Instead, he directed national security adviser Susan Rice to see Anwar on Monday.

However, Obama did not skip the "golden chance" to bring-up racism using a example that is thus far alleged and hasn't been proven a fact. Obama's condemnation of an LA Clipper owner has no place in his in his representation of America, especially since it is based on questionable evidence in an ongoing lawsuit involving deception. That didn't matter to BHO, according to the White House transcript, Obama said:

"With respect to the statements by the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers — for our Malaysian audience, this is a sports team, basketball team in the United States. The owner is reported to have said some incredibly offensive racist statements that were published. I don’t think I have to interpret those statements for you; they kind of speak for themselves. When people — when ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk. And that’s what happened here . . . And like Malaysia, we constantly have to be on guard against racial attitudes that divide us rather than embracing our diversity as a strength . . . "

Obama is causing more conflict and division in our country as he accusingly uses alleged examples of racism and condescendingly blames folks for being ignorant; he is not pulling people in this country together; his accusing and unfair tactics are separating them.

Absolutely most divisive president ever! And he knows it and is proud to continue being so, and even pushing the boundaries further as he goes, like the petulant man-child he is.